“Little Girl Buried in Rum Keg”
One of the most well-known graves at the Old Burying Grounds in Beaufort, North Carolina is that of a young girl who purportedly died at sea and was buried there in a keg of rum. Who the girl is we will never know, but her legend lives on and her spirit purportedly haunts the three-century-old cemetery to this very day.
This minisode is a companion to the episode, The Hammock House.
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Sources:
Brown, Nic. “North Carolina’s Old Burying Ground.” Garden & Gun. April/May 2015. https://gardenandgun.com/articles/our-kind-of-place-north-carolinas-old-burying-ground/.
“Old Burying Ground.” Beaufort Historic Site. Accessed July 29, 2022. https://beauforthistoricsite.org/old-burying-ground/.
WNCT-TV 9 On Your Side. “People and Places with Pierce: The Rum Keg Girl.” YouTube Video, 2:39. November 3, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMfHjC-QC1w.
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